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NEWS BRIEFS: Wisconsin Regents Approve New Policies Over Faculty Objections

Run higher education like a business! That’s a neoliberal clarion call. What happens? Wisconsin public higher ed is a primary example. Read …

by Future U/ March 13, 2016/ News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Want Kids To Do Better in Math and English? Teach Them Philosophy

Math & literacy skills increased for English children who participated in a philosophy class. Disadvantaged students showed the most significant gains.

by Future U/ March 11, 2016/ News Briefs, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Wisconsin Scholar-Activist Leaves Madison, Cites Toxic Environment for Academics

Sara Goldrick-Rabb: “It is no longer possible for critical scholars working in public higher education to flourish without tenure protections.” Read …

by Future U/ March 11, 2016/ News Briefs, Public Higher Ed/

NEWS BRIEFS: New Film Documents Impact of Neoliberalism on Public Higher Education

Starving the Beast examines how political and market-oriented forces are reframing public higher education.

by Future U/ March 10, 2016/ News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: 2016 Rankings of America’s Public Universities

Top 25 dominated by Big Ten & CA-based schools. See methodology here. Another ranking system here.

by Future U/ March 2, 2016/ News Briefs, Public Higher Ed/

NEWS BRIEFS: Campus Protests Yield Limited Results

Too little, quite limited…. That’s the outcome of a USA Today analysis of what has happened at nearly 20 schools in …

by Future U/ February 29, 2016/ News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Why Are Smaller Collegiate Endowments Outperforming Larger Endowments?

On average, about 60% of big-scale endowments are “invested” in alternative options, such as hedge funds and private equity. Many smaller endowments don’t …

by Future U/ February 26, 2016/ News Briefs, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: The ‘Free College’ Myth

In a highly critiqued essay, Jeffrey Silingo, former editor of The Chronicle of Higher Education, says the idea isn’t worth pursuing.

by Future U/ February 24, 2016/ News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Tracking the 1% in Higher Education

“Less than 1 percent of the nation’s colleges received 28.7 percent of all gifts in 2015.” Case example: Stanford. “This …

by Future U/ February 24, 2016/ News Briefs, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Forbes List of Top 50 U.S. Colleges and Universities

Loaded with exclusive liberal arts colleges, Ivy League universities, and elite private institutions (e.g., Duke, Stanford), the list includes few public …

by Future U/ February 21, 2016/ News Briefs, Society/